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Discussion Materials: Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Bill Keenan (Author), Roger Wayne (Narrator), Gildan Media (Publisher)

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A newly minted MBA recounts his first years as a Wall Street investment banker - unredacted.

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You'll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don't ask him what any of it means.

Leaning heavily on his fellow junior bankers and the countless outsourcing resources the bank employs, he slowly develops proficiency at the job, eventually gaining traction and respect, one deal at a time, over a two-year span, ultimately cementing his legacy in the group by attaining the unattainable - placing a dinner order on Seamless one Sunday night at work from Hwa Yuan Szechuan amounting to $25.00 (tax and tip included), the bank's maximum allowance for meals - the perfect order.

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Listening Length	9 hours
Author	Bill Keenan
Narrator	Roger Wayne
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	08 December 2020
Publisher	Gildan Media
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08PHQF67X
Best Sellers Rank	63,028 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 46 in Banks & Banking (Audible Books & Originals) 195 in Banks & Banking (Books) 228 in Biographies of Business Leaders

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Good fun, though becomes a little repetitive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2020

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I suppose it's reflective of the job to be fair. The first 10 chapters are fantastic, the second 10 a little slower but still good, then the last ten more of a drag if I'm honest. Still enjoyable but lost the flair of early on, hence misses out on the 5 stars.

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Pretty accurate portrayal of life as a junior banker.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2020

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What might seem like exaggeration is actually on point and probably like fiction to anyone outside the industry... would have been interesting to learn what his exit strategy was for all of those who sympathise with his lack of fulfilment.

Alfonso Rodhas

Great memoir

Reviewed in Mexico on 17 August 2020

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Amazing read full of insight into the world of finance and banking in a funny and relatable way. Kept me engaged and couldn't put it down!

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Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2020

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Wall Street memoirs are a dime a dozen. And then there's Discussion Materials. First off, it is screamingly funny. It is also, for those only glancingly acquainted with the world of investment banking, a palatable education in what on earth that actually means. Further, despite the peculiarities of life on the 44th floor at 60 Wall Street, readers will find plenty of hilarious reassurances that office life is, in ways large and small, the same the world over. But beyond that---way beyond that----beyond the nutsiness-bordering-on-slapstick, beyond the insanity, run deep currents of wisdom and clarity and fury and---most of all---sadness that make this book not only about something arcane but also about something profound and universal: the search for passion and meaning in the world of work. It is a neat trick to capture all that and to do it in a way that is at once a ground-level, eye-of-the-hurricane view AND the view from some sort of ironic remove. Keenan is the participant and the reporter, the inmate and the asylum visitor, the specimen and the forensic psychologist. It really doesn't get much better than this.

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Captivating read!

Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2020

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I really enjoyed reading this as I deeply wanted to get a sense of what banking culture and life is like. I felt like I was with Bill the entire way and as I went through this story, became increasingly impressed at the inner strength and resilience that he and the other analysts and associates display while enduring their sleepless nights powered by caffeine, endless weekends in the office, etc. By the end of the book, I felt emotionally exhausted with everything Bill had been through and wanted him to leave the job, the firm, walk far far away and never return. He seems like a person you really like to root for, and I hope whatever he is doing now makes him fulfilled and happier than before.

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